[TheForge] OT Learning to Fly

Tue Dec 12 17:35:36 EST 2006

Sheesh, Darrell !  I think it took me closer to 8 hours to solo.  As was the custom at my flight school, when I got back to the FBO after my first solo, my instructor met me carrying a pair of scissors.  He proceeded to cut out the back of the shirt I was wearing following the sweat line (which pretty much covered the entire back).  The he signed and dated the patch of shirt and tacked to the the wall at the FBO.  When I finally got my ticket a few months later, I got to take my patch of shirt home.

Later I bought part interest in a Cardinal (Cessna 177).  That was a fun plane to fly.  But, eventually, flying just got too expensive.  Gosh, I miss it though.  I still look up every time a small plane flies over.

Aubrey

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Darrell
Sent: Tue 12/12/2006 1:19 AM
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I learned to fly in 1963 at Roseburg Oregon. Bud Good owned the airport
then.
I soloed in 2 hours and 50 minutes. The instructor that soloed me thought I
was just checking out in a 150.
I have been building and flying model air plains since I could get the cap
off of a tube of glue.
Bud almost needed a whole role of paper when he found out.

Darrell

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From: "Washington, Aubrey O." <awashington at ou.edu>
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When I was learning to fly (20+ years ago) I was one of only two in my
ground school class that had no trouble learning to use a "flight computer"
which is nothing more that a fancy circular slide rule.  The youngsters had
never seen a slide rule before.

Aubrey

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Ron Lass
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I love it.  I have a 6 " bamboo slide rule that I carried for years in my
nerd pack.  I used to use a circular slide rule for motorcycle enduro
events.  Now I like to work with steel.  It may outlast me.

Ron

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>I was a relative late-comer to the high-tech world.  I didn't get my first
>hand held calculator until I was working on my dissertation in grad school.
>My first computer was an Apple IIc which I didn't get until several years
>out of grad school.  I still keep a slide rule in my desk drawer, and even
>use it on occasion.  I have a little 6" slide rule in the truck for
>figuring gas mileage.
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